Changing a career at mid-life is an intimidating affair, and often there will be many concerns. For instance, financial worries, a resistant spouse and the fear of failure are likely concerns. Such fears often prevent anyone from moving beyond their comfort zone and seek actions addressing their tingling itch to switch careers. Yet, sometimes life’s biggest rewards come from taking the biggest risks.

Though this phrase has proved to be true a number of times, there are situations where a change seems impossible and absurd. A change in profession at an age of forty or fifty is one of those situations where peers may pause and look at you quizzically with one question – why?